| 1977 |
1977-10 |
Somoza's National Guard destroys the Solentiname community — After Solentiname members joined the FSLN assault on the San Carlos barracks (13 October 1977), Somoza's National Guard razed Cardenal's contemplative art-and-Gospel community in retaliation and he went into exile in Costa Rica. The community's collective Gospel readings had been published as 'El Evangelio en Solentiname', a landmark text of the current.[4] [1] [3] |
| 1983 |
1983-03-04 |
John Paul II reprimands Ernesto Cardenal — As John Paul II arrived in Nicaragua on 4 March 1983, Culture Minister Cardenal knelt to greet him; the pope wagged his finger and admonished him to 'regularize' his situation with the Church — an image emblematic of the Vatican's clash with priests in the Sandinista government.[5] [1] |
| 1984 |
1984 |
Cardenal suspended a divinis — Ernesto Cardenal is suspended from priestly ministry under John Paul II for holding government office.[2] |
| 2019 |
2019-02 |
Cardenal's suspension lifted — Francis grants Ernesto Cardenal 'absolution from all canonical censures', ending the 1984 suspension.[2] |
| 2020 |
2020-03-01 |
Death of Ernesto Cardenal — The priest-poet of Solentiname dies at 95.[1] |